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  • According to US President Donald Trump, talks with Iran may occur this next weekend.
  • Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards claim that in response to US strikes on Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, they opened fire on US military installations.
  • In order "to safeguard national security," Bahrain's Ministry of Interior declared that it has arrested fifteen people who were allegedly linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
  • Kuwait said on Wednesday that one person was killed and numerous others were injured in an Iranian missile and drone strike on its international airport.
  • During a press conference in Geneva on Wednesday, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization, stated that the Ebola virus in central Africa has had a "big head-start" and warned that health officials were still lagging behind.

Tag: Xinjiang’s Muslims

January 12, 2021

US Slams Chinese Embassy Tweet Lauding...

Washington has condemned Beijing for a since-removed tweet that sought to justify repressive family planning policies in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) by suggesting they make Uyghur women more independent, prompting calls to shutter China’s embassy and ban its Twitter account

January 5, 2021

Uyghur Iron Traders Are ‘Taught’ Cooking...

Two Uyghurs in the iron trade who expanded their business to Kazakhstan in recent years have been detained in an internment camp in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) where they are being “taught” culinary skills

December 19, 2020

Young Uyghur Man Who Went Missing...

A young Uyghur man who went missing after learning he was going to be sent to an internment camp in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) has been found to have died by suicide, according to officials and a Canada-based activist

December 3, 2020

Xinjiang Authorities Remove Statue of Revered...

From the early 1980s into recent years, numerous scholars in China have researched and published about Kashgary and his work, and numerous national and international scientific seminars on the topic of his work have been held in Urumqi and Beijing

November 4, 2020

Young Wrestler Jailed in Xinjiang For...

Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have sentenced a young ethnic Kazakh wrestler to 15 years in prison for sharing a song by a Kazakhstani musician on social media, according to a former internment camp detainee. Kastar Polat, a 20-year-old man from Chaghantoqay (in Chinese, Yumin) county, in Ili Kazakh (Yili Hasake) …

October 17, 2020

Chinese Police Target Muslim Minorities Using...

Meiya Pico is a digital forensics company, which means that … they help police, they help investigators to find data that is hidden on devices. So what they’ve done is they’ve worked with the Public Security Bureau and others to develop a system and a device that will look for data that’s hidden on people’s devices

May 27, 2019

Rights Group Presses Islamic World Over...

The HRW campaign uses tweets and Facebook posts to prod the OIC into action, asking its members to help call out China and support efforts to monitor the treatment of Uyghurs at the UN rights meeting next month

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